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8 EAST & BAYS COURIER, FEBRUARY 2, 2011
NEWS
OPEN DAY
Friday 4th February
10am -- 3pm
Laughing
all the
way to
the
beach.
Jan and Richard Papworth, both in their 60s, have lived at
Vision Dannemora since February 2008.
We were lucky to catch you That's right. We're off to our beach-
house later today, then over the next while we've got trips to
Christchurch, Singapore, Sydney, and Hawaii.
Career 38 years in the home appliance industry with a wonderful
company; the last 15 of them as General Manager of Sales for the
New Zealand market.
Interests We've owned a beach-house an hour north of Auckland for
the last 20 years. Over that time, we've spent virtually every weekend
there, year round. We're into other things too -- thoroughbred horses,
travel and family of course.
Reasons for moving Being away so much, we found maintaining our
Auckland home as well the Northland property was becoming a handful.
We started looking around for a change in 2007.
Why here? Friends of ours have lived here for a number of years and
invited us to have a look. We felt it would absolutely fit in with our
lifestyle. We could lock it and leave, knowing there'd never be a
problem. And I could see that Jan would be perfectly safe if I was away.
Advice to others Go for it. At our age, lifestyle is more important than
capital gain. Make the move and everything becomes so simple. Plus,
there are always people around and activities to partake in. If you were
lonely here, it'd be your own fault.
It's the people that make a Vision village.
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Councillors still waiting on basics
By SCOTT MORGAN
It's been three months since
the supercity election, but
some councillors and local
board members are still
waiting to be given basic
essentials like business cards
and office space.
This is despite some staff
in the mayor's office and
other council departments
getting their cards last year.
Citizens and Ratepayers
co-leader Chris Fletcher,
who's returned to local body
politics after a 10-year break,
says it's been a frustrating
wait.
It's embarrassing not
having a business card and
scrawling out your email
address and phone number
on a piece of paper.
It's not really acceptable,
but I guess we haven't had an
amalgamation of this size
before.''
The Albert-Eden-Roskill
councillor is also frustrated at
not having a central city
office to work from, though
she believes moves are under
way to find space for new
councillors.
Orakei councillor Cameron
Brewer says the lack of office
space hasn't been an issue
yet.
I just operate from home,
in the Civic administration
building, in my car with my
laptop or in cafes. It's good to
get out and about,'' he says.
We councillors can make do.
You don't get into this job for
the perks.''
Mr Brewer says councillors
should receive business cards
soon but in the meantime he's
been using his campaign
cards which he printed thou-
sands of.
He says he is more con-
cerned about staff not getting
paid and issues arising from
the call centre than the lack
of business cards or office
space. While he doesn't have
high hopes of getting an office
space he has requested a spot
in the administration build-
ing.
Maungakiekie-Tamaki
councillor Richard Northey
plans to work from the
council's base in the city and
local board offices in Pan-
mure.
Mr Northey says he's still
giving his old Auckland City
Council cards to members of
the public.
If they use the old email
address it still gets to me. For
those who are new it's a prob-
lem -- for me it's a minor
inconvenience.''
Local board members from
across the city have also been
left waiting three months for
business cards.
It's unbelievable -- they
could have done this a week
after the election,'' Waite-
mata Local Board member
Greg Moyle says.
I'm having to give out per-
sonal business cards, which is
inappropriate.''
Maungakiekie-Tamaki
Local Board member Simon
Randall says he's getting on
with the job despite the lack
of business cards and other
essentials.
But he is concerned the
amount of work that needs to
be done could overwhelm the
board's small staff.
They're trying to paint the
transition as much cheaper
by understaffing it. It will get
to the point where the local
board needs better
resources,'' he says.
Manager of local board
services Karen Lyons says it
is more cost-effective to print
business cards in large runs.
Therefore it has been
necessary to confirm the final
locations and contact details
of all elected representatives
before going to print.''
As for phones, some local
board members chose the
technology option and
received a cellphone, com-
puter equipment, training
and support in November.
Others chose the option of
using their own equipment
and receiving an allowance.
-- Additional reporting by
Michelle Cooke
Get on your bike
Here's a worthy chal-
lenge -- avoid the petrol
price hike and bike to
work.
Those who accept
could pull in some
serious prizes.
Auckland Transport is
again launching the
summer Bike to Work
Challenge. For 12 weeks
until April 10 cyclists
whogiveitagofora
minimum of 10 trips can
get rewards from Avanti,
Hoyts and Bike Wise.
Each week people who
sign up will receive
emails and go in the
prize draw. New cyclists
who log 10 journeys on
the website during the
12-week challenge will
enter the draw to win an
Avanti Discovery 8C
bicycle with bike lock,
CatEye light set and an
Avanti Razor II helmet.
Registrations are open
at www.bikewise.co.nz/
events/auckland-bike-2-
work-challenge.